The Inheritance Games Quotes

“My body recognized him before my mind did. His arms beat against the water in a brutally efficient butterfly stroke. And his back muscles…”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Don’t be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Grayson jerked to a halt, every muscle in his body taut. “Don’t you say her name.” His posture was angry, but his voice sounded like it was about to crumble. Like I’d gutted him. Not just Jameson. My mouth went dry. Emily didn’t just matter to Jameson.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The best way to keep intruders from breaking into a safe is to make sure they don't even know it's there.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“This family--we destroy everything we touch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Nash picked up a cupcake and took a bite out of it like it was an apple. "For what it's worth, I vote for red velvet next." Libby turned back to me. "Salted caramel it is.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“had what could probably have been classified as a book addiction.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Everything is something in Hawthorne House.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You don’t like me much,” Thea noted. “That’s okay. I’m a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I’m no stranger to being hated.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Alisa gave me an almost pitying look. “Oh, honey,” she said, then recovered her professionalism. “You own this hotel.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Tobias Hawthorne. Even dead, he was larger than life.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“if yes is no, and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You’re young enough,” Zara said, her voice almost wistful, “to believe that money solves all ills.”
Spoken like a person so rich she can’t imagine the weight of problems money can solve.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You know what they say about baptisms and fire.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Everything’s a game. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“They were—the four of them—a unit. They were Hawthornes. I wasn’t.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“And at the end of the day, he'd chosen me. Over family. Over his mother.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Avery, I can personally guarantee that Nash will not ax-murder you or allow you to be ax-murdered by anyone else while I’m gone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I knew better than to put any confidence in the assurances of good-looking guys.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Orgasmic garlic mashed potatoes”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“There was something intense in those words, in the expression on his face—like the boy who’d learned to see the world saw me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Between the fire and a storm that night,” Alisa said, once she’d recovered, “Toby’s remains were never definitively found.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?” Zara’s last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. “I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will.” Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don’t trust Thea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“On the surface,” he told me, “it appears that the letter outlines what we already know: My grandfather died and left everything to the devil he didn’t know, thereby reversing the fortune of many. Why? Because power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Go away,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“A boyfriend?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I could feel him in the room,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“It’s her house.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games